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At long last, Apple has finally gotten around to updating its line of Retina MacBook Pros. Hardware bumps and price dips are certainly welcome, but how long are we going to have to wait around for Apple to release iMacs and MacBook Airs with Retina displays?

For almost as long as there have been Windows laptops, there has always been a giant squid in the room: Why is Windows’ battery life so damn pitiful? The battery life discrepancy between Windows and other operating systems has never been clearer than with the Surface Pro 2 and the 2013 MacBook Air — both have very similar specs (Haswell Core i5 CPU/GPU, battery size), and yet Apple’s laptop has almost twice the battery life of Microsoft’s tablet.

The size of our devices are stuck at something of a bottleneck. We can’t exactly make them smaller because they’re so reliant on large, easily visible displays. So, the industry makes do, and makes the devices thinner, which reduces overall size without compromising display size. One object standing in the way of even thinner laptops is the hinge, and Apple might have found a way to remove that from the design equation.

An enthusiast gamer and Macbook Air gamer has worked out a method for combining an external desktop GPU, various adapters, and a Thunderbolt controller on Windows 7. The performance gains are substantial — how long before Intel starts approving official solutions?

Yesterday’s big announcements from Apple raise many questions. What is the difference between the different MacBook Pros? With these Retina displays, where does this leave the Air? Turns out, the new MacBook Pro is jumping to the front of the pack.